{"title":"Repetition and the Art of Writing Novels","authors":"Nassim Bravo, Fernanda Rojas","doi":"10.1515/kierke-2022-0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper we wish to analyze how Kierkegaard understood the art of writing novels, that is, as a way to express and develop the life-view of the author. We would like to argue that this notion, presented for the first time in From the Papers of One Still Living (1838), was put into practice in the short novel Repetition (1843), in which Kierkegaard used the biblical story of Job to explain the development of selfhood through the existential category of repetition. According to Kierkegaard, true repetition—which is the central category of the life-view he is trying to convey—helps the individual “recollect” the past correctly so he or she can reconcile with the present and grow into the future.","PeriodicalId":53174,"journal":{"name":"Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2022-0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In this paper we wish to analyze how Kierkegaard understood the art of writing novels, that is, as a way to express and develop the life-view of the author. We would like to argue that this notion, presented for the first time in From the Papers of One Still Living (1838), was put into practice in the short novel Repetition (1843), in which Kierkegaard used the biblical story of Job to explain the development of selfhood through the existential category of repetition. According to Kierkegaard, true repetition—which is the central category of the life-view he is trying to convey—helps the individual “recollect” the past correctly so he or she can reconcile with the present and grow into the future.
本文旨在分析克尔凯郭尔是如何理解小说写作艺术的,即作为表达和发展作者人生观的一种方式。我们认为,这一概念首次出现在《从一个还活着的人的论文》(From the Papers of One Still Living, 1838)中,并在短篇小说《重复》(Repetition, 1843)中得到了实践。在《重复》中,克尔凯郭尔用圣经中约伯的故事,通过重复的存在范畴来解释自我的发展。根据克尔凯郭尔的说法,真正的重复——这是他试图传达的人生观的核心范畴——有助于个人正确地“回忆”过去,这样他或她就能与现在和解,并向未来成长。